page_title: Torvosaurus
section_title: Paleoecology
hierarchical_section_title: Torvosaurus / Paleoecology
caption_attribution_description: Torvosaurus claw
context_page_description: Torvosaurus is a genus of carnivorous megalosauroid theropod dinosaur that lived approximately 153 to 148 million years ago during the Late Jurassic Period in what is now Colorado and Portugal. It contains two currently recognized species, Torvosaurus tanneri and Torvosaurus gurneyi.
  In 1979 the type species Torvosaurus tanneri was named: it was a large, heavily built, bipedal carnivore, that could grow to a length of about 10 m. T. tanneri was among the largest carnivores of its time, together with Epanterias and Saurophaganax. Specimens referred to Torvosaurus gurneyi were initially claimed to be up to twelve metres long, but later shown to be smaller. Based on bone morphology Torvosaurus is thought to have had short but very powerful arms.
caption: Claw cast of T. tanneri, Natural History Museum, London
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